What is the difference among a ghost, a poltergeist and a haunting?

Question: What is the difference among a ghost, a poltergeist and a haunting?

Answer: Despite popular belief, there are distinct differences among ghosts, hauntings and poltergeists:

• Ghosts are spirits of people that have been caught between this plane of existence and the next. They are intelligent beings, often capable of interacting with the living.
• Hauntings are recordings of an event on an event on an environment. They do not interect with the living.
• Poltergeists are neither ghosts nor hauntings, but are caused by the unconscious mind of a living person, usually under some kind of stress.

It is worth noting that a combination of these phenomena can occur in one place. One can effect or even trigger another, which is why a variety of such phenomena can be found in a "haunting."